Who Is This “Together” Starbucks’ Howard Schultz Is Talking About?

Ted Rall asks Who Is This “Together” Starbucks’ Howard Schultz Is Talking About?.

He’s considered a hero, and rightly so. Still, when French General Charles de Gaulle gave his most famous speech, the Appeal of 18 June 1940, not everyone was moved. “Nothing is lost for France!” the future leader of the Free French intoned into the BBC microphone to the people of France, who had just lost their country to the Nazi invasion. “The flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished!”

“Easy for him to say!” my grandfather raged. “He’s sitting over there in London, sipping tea! Here we’ve got the krauts up our ass!”

He changed his mind later. But still: terrible first communiqué.

Communications 101: If you hope others to follow you as a leader, remember who and where and what you are.

If you don’t, others will.

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This is a very important for Communists. Ww must be workers who share the struggles and privations of other workers.

It is very easy for me, a priviliged worker, to blog about Commmunism and Capitalism. But I can really talk to other privileged workers.

But this does not mean I should keep silent. All workers are needed to build the Communist society. It behoves us all, priviliged, skilled, non-skilled, and unemployed, to remember that we are all workers.